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Watford 0 Tottenham 0: Winless Watford live to regret missed chances

A STRANGE afternoon. After 90 goalless minutes, both teams trooped off feeling equal parts relief and frustration. Watford had failed to transform their first-half whirlwind into goals, yet by half-time they were spent. Tottenham, who could have been three goals adrift by the interval, had created enough chances to score three themselves by the end.

While four draws from their previous five games going into this match (plus progression in the Carling Cup) was the sort of run that consigns others to relegation, it had given struggling Watford hope that Premiership survival is not wholly beyond them and that there might be some kind of illumination at the end of their winless tunnel.

Alas for manager Adrian Boothroyd, the shallowness of his playing resources wrought its customary havoc. In the continued absence of talismanic striker Marlon King — one Watford player for whom the ascent to the highest level has not